Issues with docker honeypot on Github

Hello,

I’m trying to use a docker honeypot from Github.

As per the instructions, I did set it up on an Ubuntu 16.04 VM so that I could test it out and play with it locally. There also don’t seem to be any firewall issues occurring here as I can SSH into the VM from my host without issue.

The problem is that it seems the whaler_victim container doesn’t seem to be reachable via TCP:2375. As per the logs I’m seeing for the honeypot.

2020-02-19 22:32:17,867 - DEBUG - connectionpool - Starting new HTTP connection (26): whaler_victim:2375
2020-02-19 22:32:17,868 - WARNING - VictimContainer - VictimContainer: Lost connection, retrying in 10s...[HTTPConnectionPool(host='whaler_victim', port=2375): Max retries exceeded with url: /v1.35/events (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f9cebc76690>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused',))]

There is an EXPOSE directive in the Dockerfile and I can see the container listening when running a docker ps.

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                              NAMES
48cd82f60e5c        whaler/capture       "/app/wrapper.sh -U …"   4 minutes ago       Up 4 minutes                                           whaler_capture
f47899d96703        docker:stable-dind   "dockerd-entrypoint.…"   4 minutes ago       Up 4 minutes        0.0.0.0:2375->2375/tcp, 2376/tcp   whaler_victim
edccb00ffa2b        whaler/reporting     "/bin/sh -c /run.sh"     19 minutes ago      Up 4 minutes        0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp                 whaler_reporting

On the VM, I don’t have anything listening on 2375 so I expect that when I test this out by running docker -H=VMIPADDRESS run hello-world I would see the hello world container run but I’m getting the can’t connect error.

I am new to docker but I’m at my wit’s end for what else to check for to get this running. Could someone please provide some advice on how to get this up and running again?

I was able to get this fixed with help from a friend. I documented the workaround and why it works on the original issue that I opened with the project.